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寻觅

xún mì

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 尋覓

寻觅 (xún mì) means "to look for". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 寻觅 means

1. to look for

The characters in 寻觅

• 寻xúnto search; to look for; to seek
• 觅mì(literary) to seek; to find

Example sentences

• 翻译其实是一件吃力不讨好的事，因为一种语言在另一种语言中的对应物藏在往往隐藏在深不可测之处，翻译者需要百般寻觅，而且，挑剔的读者很难糊弄。
  Fānyì qíshí shì yī jiàn chīlìbùtǎohǎo de shì, yīnwèi yīzhǒng yǔyán zài lìngyī zhǒng yǔyán zhōng de duìyìng wù cáng zài wǎngwǎng yǐncáng zài shēnbùkěcè zhī chǔ, fānyìzhě xūyào bǎibān xúnmì, érqiě, tiāoti de dúzhě hěn nán hùnong.
  In reality, translation is akin to working for peanuts, since the corresponding meaning of something in one language is often hidden in some deep and impenetrable recesses of the other. As a result, the translator is forced to search all over... Never mind that the picky reader is very difficult to fool.

Where 寻觅 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · xuǎn–yā (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read xún mì correctly.
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